Ekiti budget passage by 7
PDP lawmakers illegal —Omirin
The Speaker of Ekiti State House
of Assembly, Dr Adewale Omirin, has reacted to the purported passage of the
state budget by the suspended seven members of the Peoples Democratic Party,
PDP, in the House of Assembly, dismissing it as illegal and exercise in
futility.
He
explained that the seven PDP lawmakers were lawfully suspended at a sitting two
weeks ago in Ado-Ekiti where resolutions on the autonomy for the local
governments and House of Assembly, among others, were passed and sent to the
National Assembly as Ekiti State contributions to the constitution amendment
process.
Omirin in
a statement by his Special Adviser on Media, Wole Olujobi, described
yesterday’s exercise held behind closed doors as one in the series of comic
tales by farcical politicians holding the reins of governance in Ekiti State.
“It is
sad that Governor Ayodele Fayose has turned Ekiti State House of Assembly to a
safari park where the macho posturing of misguided adults in G7 is being
masterfully manipulated by this accomplished choreographer of political
sophistry.
“In the
sitting they themselves knew was illegal, they chased away print and electronic
reporters that got wind of their plan to sit. They held the illegal meeting
with no in-house correspondents in attendance as they were also chased out. In
their wisdom, they, as usual, reportedly had Lere Olayinka and Honourable Dele
Olugbemi’s personal assistant in attendance.
“To them,
the machination is yielding astounding results that confound and defy logic.
Clearly, this is illegal, unconstitutional and another toad-for-the-dinner
sitting that responsible Nigerians know quite well does not have a place in our
legal statue.
The
Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria is not a cocktail of brawn and
sinews, neither does it condone the boisterous essence of gangsterism,” the
Speaker said, adding that Ekiti State had grown beyond the motor park antics of
pretenders to the throne of honourable members of the parliament.
Omirin
insisted that APC members would continue to apply laws in whatever they do,
stressing that what APC members swore to protect at inauguration was the
sanctity of the Nigerian constitution.
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